The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.

If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.

Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.